From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 22:13:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4457416A4E1 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:13:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851E943D46 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:13:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7OMDj6j070118; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:13:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Ceri Davies Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:19:10 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200608232337.k7NNbJT8032059@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608241719.10921.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:13:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/1726/Thu Aug 24 14:45:50 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:13:49 -0000 On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:42, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > > > > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml > > > > Log: > > > > Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention > > > > ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the > > > > boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding > > > > the boot blocks may be the only option. > > > > > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > > > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images? > > > > That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is > > present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end > > up sending their output to the serial console. > > OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here. Never mind. > > > We could use -D though, that > > would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h) > > to force sysinstall to use the serial console. > > That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before! It would > help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build > custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though. It's old, kernel and boot2 have supported it for a long time, but /boot/loader has only properly handled -D for the past year or so now. -- John Baldwin